Another few thousand bit the dust. Chalk another one up for the Bush administration. That’ll be President Bush’s long lasting legacy when we look back on the first few years of the 21st Century. Thousands of people killed on U.S. soil because the president failed to protect them.

In a weak effort to shift searing public critique of the Republican and Bush administration’s inadequate, incompetent, and racist response to the Katrina disaster, President Bush announced over the weekend that he was amending his nomination of John G. Roberts to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

In a distasteful show of insensitivity and partisanship, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has called for cash donations be paid to Operation Blessing, a charity front for Pat Robertson’s right-wing Christian fundamentalist TV operation, The 700 Club, and his other corporate schemes.

The offensive by the religious right moved up another notch last week as a proposal was advanced to introduce into schools a text-book which attempts to marry concepts of god with science. The theory is being sold under the label of "intelligent design".

Hardly 48 hours ago I concluded my remarks on the Round Table broadcast where I once again explicitly offered the United States to send a medical force with the necessary means to offer emergency assistance to the tens of thousands of Americans trapped in the flooded areas and the ruins Katrina left behind after lashing Louisiana and other southern states.

So, US televangelist Pat Robertson has ordered his million-strong "brownshirt" army to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

The unprecedented New Orleans disaster is reverberating through the world. After a generation of demagoguery about “reverse racism,” equating poverty with sin, and condemnations of activist big government, the Bush administration has no foreign power or ideology to blame for the fact that thousands of overwhelmingly poor and African American people are dead or in life-threatening situations because of a generation of right-wing rule.

Human rights activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) has been found murdered. Her car was discovered overturned in a lakebed in Northern Kenya. A Kenyan doctor by the name of Arnold Bluhm (Hubert Koundé), who had been traveling with Tessa, has disappeared. Arnold and Tessa have secrets.

On September 15, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and other congress members will be holding hearings on Capitol Hill on the issue of creating an exit strategy for Iraq. This event will be nine days before what organizers are hoping will be the biggest ever march against the war in Washington.

IT has been argued that if cereals – rice, wheat, corn, maize, etc --- had not been cultivated by man, human civilisation may not have existed in the form we know today. Settled agriculture was crucially dependant on the cultivation of cereals, all of which are believed to have descended from a wild grass that existed over 50 million years ago.

The free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its residents. Forewarned that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that city and surrounding areas, what did officials do? They played the free market.